Guava with Whipped Cream and a Pocky
Story: Timeless { backstory | index }
Title: Nobody’s Surprise
Rating: G
Challenge: Guava #16: if you’re happy and you know it
Toppings/Extras: whipped cream, pocky, hot fudge
Wordcount: 100
Summary: There is one little girl in Miss Elms’ class that scares her a little.
Notes: Three cheers for sarcastic prompts!
For an eleven-year-old, she certainly was intimidating.
Miss Elms had not gone into secondary school teaching expecting it all to be sunshine and roses-especially not on the twelfth level, which was barely above the Smog, although it beat the total poverty of the ground floor-but young Adele Merritt was not normal. She sat through the lessons glaring at the board as though trying to scare the knowledge into her head.
She never smiled. Laughed. Played. She never joked or teased. She avoided talking to others when she could, and didn’t want or have any friends. To nobody’s surprise.